Movielogr
This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959)
Directed by Konstantine Pipinashvili
Overview
Based on the autobiographical book “Ya -sam” (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1893, into a Russian Cossack family in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire. There he spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi. Mayakovsky moved to Moscow at the age of 14, after his father’s death. He became a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer/director and public speaker.
Length 95 minutes
Actors
Rodam Chelidze | Akaki Khorava | Nina Shaternikova | Antonina Maksimova | Emiliya Sudakova | Guram Tsereteli | Zurab Laperadze | Эдишер Магалашвили | Igor Vladimirov | Mikheil Kvarelashvili | Irine Magalashvili | Enriko Ghaghanidze | Akaki Vasadze | Lazare Kazaishvili | Lyudvig Zakrzhevskiy | Pyotr Dolzhanov | Tengiz Amiranashvili